TF (John) ...... Congratulations .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
John:
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Track fiddlerXavier was born just seconds ago.....I have a brand new grandson
Congratulations, TF! Xavier was my grandfather's middle name
I like it!
A round on me and some licorice pipes for everyone, too!
Hall or hole?
One slip, and down the hole we fallIt seems to take no time at allA momentary lapse of reasonThat binds a life for lifeA small regret, you won't forget,There'll be no sleep in here tonight
Cheers, Ed
Xavier was born just seconds ago.....I have a brand new grandson
Track Fiddler/John
Ken.
Your all good here.
PF says this.
One slip and down the hall you fall. Seems to take no time at all. A momentary lapse of reason.
Like it is Kid. You'll be alright. Been there too.
Track Fiddler
cudaken Nancy and Jerry sitting in a tree, messing thing's up yes sir dee! Delivery ticket, hum what could go wrong? 1 Name spelled wrong. 2 Wrong address and it was not close. In fact they had his X Wife address! 3 No Zip code. 4 No Phone number to set up delivery time! No wonder I drink. I had stopped drinking then they hired Jerry. Back to land I went.
Hi Ken,
Every time you talk about those two it makes me feel very sympathetic for you! It also makes me sooooooooooo happy that I am retired!!!!! I hope you can get there soon. Nancy and Jerry are shortening your life expectancy!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
Steven you have heard the phrase "Older, Wealthier and Wise"? That pretty much means we want to suck all the fun out of your life. I don't blame you for wanting a fun ride! If I had to ride a horse, I would want a fast and nimble horse! Hum, I would need a Clydesdale but I would want a Fast Clydesdale!
Nancy and Jerry sitting in a tree, messing thing's up yes sir dee!
Delivery ticket, hum what could go wrong?
1 Name spelled wrong.
2 Wrong address and it was not close. In fact they had his X Wife address!
3 No Zip code.
4 No Phone number to set up delivery time!
No wonder I drink. I had stopped drinking then they hired Jerry. Back to land I went.
Later, missing Sparkie and still not smoking Ken
I hate Rust
On a more serious note my daughter-in-law was induced at 2 p.m. today.
My third grandson is not into the world easy. My Judy was crying after her telephone calls and it looks like a C-section is in the planning.
They were giving my daughter-in-law as much time as she needed today. I am very confident everything will be fine, Judy sees It that way too.
A C-section is going to happen soon.
Xavier is the name of my third grandson on the way here. My Anthony and my Carter was easier.
Do you remember the wide receiver in the 1980's Anthony Carter?
My son names his sons after Vikings players
TF.
Mike. I will be 58 miles away from you. An hour in normal driving time.
20 minutes away in my Mach 1, not driving too very fast
Just Kidding. TF
Mike.... How you doing?
Well I always call leaving the cities going up north or traveling West and North, Northern.
The real up north to me is the Canadian Border or farther. I used to live there.
I am going to Hayward Wisconsin to see my brother-in-law that built my engine. The last time I seen him was about a year and a half ago.
He was down here in the cities doing his continuing education for his Senior Tech endorsement for Ford.
I want to bring his Frankenstein up to him so he can drive it again...... I like that Man!
TF
Track fiddlerWhat would you do? Take the safe bet or Grab Life By The Reins?
At my age, I always take, or think I'm taking, the safe bet. That hot lil'Twang looks like it's up for a road trip.
I take my 2002 Ford Ranger, with 224,000 miles on it, back and forth to our place in Northern WI. , from our home in SE. WI., (286 miles) on a regular basis.
Where ya'goin in northern WI. ? I'll be at our place, 20 miles East of Fifield, on HWY 70, from this Friday, to Sept 1st., finishing rough-in. Getting ready for drywall, which I'll start in Sept., hopefully get it taped and finished, and maybe even painted, before nights get too cold.
Mike.
My You Tube
Hi Dave hon30critter,
You are welcome.
Thanks Richard.
I'm going to take your advisement to the Pima Air and Space Museum and the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park under serious consideration.
It will have to be one of those free Winter Laughlin trips though. I can seriously consider a road hazard in 115 -120° on some forgotten desert highway much worse than stranded in 20 below zero on a Minnesota Northern Highway.
When it's really cold you can get your care package out of the truck and snuggle up in your blanket inside your car. When it's 120 degrees and hot you have nowhere to go
Winter it is then
As far as the other topic. I have had no input on cars, insurance and a bag of chips....... nor will I.
I live by the "To each their own clause". We all learn our own lessons from our own mistakes. Sometimes the hard way but then we learn
This doesn't excuse the fact that I'm thinking of taking this up to Northern Wisconsin this weekend.
It's in prime running condition.
That doesn't excuse the fact of the possibility of a road hazard .......Up in the middle of nowhere and any poor excuse of any Tom, Dick and Harry to come help me out with whatever poor garage they have.
I need to re-evaluate my travel plans before I blast off this Saturday Morning...... I love to drive the Red Machine but maybe I should just take my truck.
What would you do? Take the safe bet or Grab Life By The Reins?
RideOnRoad ...and wear a tall, pointy hat.
You just leave my hat alone, please!!!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Steven OtteAll right, everybody, go to your corners. . .
As long as I don't have to put my nose in the corner and wear a tall, pointy hat.
Richard
Steven OtteAll right, everybody, go to your corners.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Jimmy_Braumif anyone has been to Greentree PA, they are familiar with Rook yard. It's in a valley between PA 376 (Parkway), and the neighborhood residential area of Green Tree. It's the only major yard on the Wheeling and Lake Erie in PA, and was originally the Pittsburgh and West Virginia railway main offices and Yard.
Congratulations on the job and in using parts of your dad's layout incorporated in yours.
I've been to Rook Yard during a W&LE Passenger excursion some years back, in 2008:
IMG_2637 by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_2663 by Edmund, on Flickr
There was a big, old sanding tower still there:
IMG_2641 by Edmund, on Flickr
I hope everyone is doing well —
All right, everybody, go to your corners. I don't want anybody talking about cars, driving habits, or insurance costs for at least 24 hours. That includes the Forum patron whose life we're discussing. No "last words."
I realize that most of us here have lived two or three times as long as young Steven, but we need to resist the idea that this makes any of us two or three times as wise. When Steven announces he's buying a car, he does so because he expects to hear "Wow, cool car, good for you," not a bunch of curmudgeons who think they have license to act like they were his dad.
People come here for fellowship and model trains. Remember why we're here and show the same respect to our younger members as you would to those closer to your age. Thank you.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
York1A movie showing a rich Victorian family is not how was. People bathed once a week at the most, suffered without antibiotics, and cooled off on summer days by ... oh, that's right, they didn't cool off. Don't even think about how pleasant the outhouse was on hot summer days.
The following film gives you a pretty good picture of the reality in Britain in 1900.
A trip down San Francisco´s Market Street in 1900 shows also quite a bit of horse travel!
Good morning. I'll have the usual -- lots of black coffee.
Thunder and rain this morning means no trail walking. I really miss it on days like this.
Tinplate Toddler I am amazed at how dirty the streets were in those days - horse manure all over the place! I hate to imagine the smell on a summer day,
I agree, Ulrich. My wife often says she wished she had lived in the Victorian times -- around 1890. I think this comes from watching romantic period-piece movies.
A movie showing a rich Victorian family is not how it was. People bathed once a week at the most, suffered without antibiotics, and cooled off on summer days by ... oh, that's right, they didn't cool off. Don't even think about how pleasant the outhouse was on hot summer days.
Not much going on today. Still working on the layout's Psycho motel. Yesterday, I redid the wiring on the UP station.
Lion, I'm thinking of changing some of my wiring to your system of having all the wires come to connections behind the fascia. When something needs to be changed, you just unscrew the fascia and work right there. My knees and back are not doing well climbing underneath the layout to make connections, test circuits, etc. This might be a major project, but something I think needs to be done.
More thunder as I type. This has been the rainiest summer we've had in quite a few years.
York1 John
Steven - in my country, it is also common, that novices pay a much higher premium, which can go as far as double the base premium. I get a 70% discount for over 40 years of driving without a claim. For a novice, this would translate into $480 a year - still quite a lot, but $500 a month is - well, way beyond anything I´d be willing to pay. I´d certainly would look for a more economical alternative for my mobility!
On another note, seeing all the "horse droppings" in the 1900s streets made me investigate into the carbon footprint of those 4-leggers. My unscientific findings are, that if we were to ban all ICE vehicles and replace them by horses and carriages, the CO2 emission would by far exceed today´s! Add to that the fact, that we would not be able to grow the amount of feed necessary unless we want to let half of the planet´s population die of starvation, and we see, that we cannot bring back those good old days.
Yeah its because I'm 18 despite my clean driving record.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
500 a month for insurance? No offense, but you might want to check arpund for a better policy. I pay 120 a month for insurance on a Ford F-150, and that's Allstates medium higher level policy. (500 deductable) I am only saying ig like this, because, you might be getting taken for an insurance ride. This is with a speeding ticket on my driver record(Hidden reduce speed construction sign), and two accidents(both not at fault-Deer, and had a mirror taken off).
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I have been watching a short video showing a tram travel in Victorian Britain. I am amazed at how dirty the streets were in those days - horse manure all over the place! I hate to imagine the smell on a summer day, shortly after a down pour of rain! Now I understand why fenders are called fenders because the fend that stuff of from flying right in your face! The German word for that is much more descriptive - "Kotfluegel"!
Some got a second helping of mad though...
NWP SWPI'm bringing out the shouty caps lock next.
Steven - just remember to:
9k is the CARFAX retail value at that mileage.
VIN: 2MHHM79V94X684876
Street racing to settle disputes?
"Responsible, mature man"
Yeah Kevin that's a little thing called sarcasm!
And the fact you even bothered to dig that up to quote it is slightly disturbing.
Yeah insurance is 5 a month in the land of lawsuits and uninsured drivers.
Louisiana has an EXTREMELY litigious population (take a drive down I-110 and count how many injury attorney billboards you pass) and a lot of drivers are uninsured or don't even have a license.
But I'm sure you'll probably go get a quote for insurance here in Louisiana just to prove me wrong.
And perhaps your daughter needs to consider driving something cheaper to insure, and maybe pay attention more when driving, two at fault crashes and she drives a mustang, not hard to deduce the cause there.
California has some nice racing schools at the local tracks, she should check them out especially if she intends to keep driving a mustang.
Just driving fast is stupid but if you are driving fast carefully then you're fine, use your brain (no traffic drive fast, traffic slow down, in the city slow down, out in the boonies lett'er rip!) And driving for me is like chess I'm always four five steps ahead.
And far as financing of you are going to give me a job that will pay more that 11k a year or give me the money to buy a car then have at telling me what to do but since its definitely a no on both I'll say this, we are currently sharing ONE FREAKING CAR, yeah my truck is not driveable so how the hell are two adults supposed to share one car for an extended period of time?
Why don't my parents help me? They are helping me, but theres only so much they can do. Also those people that just buy their kids new cars nauseate me, I need a car so I have to make that happen.
I don't have a problem with advice but Kevin I don't appreciate your tone, Dave, Ulrich, JR, and Ray all offered advice which I listen to because its offered as that ADVICE.
If you know so d*** much what the hell are you doing here? You should be solving world hunger? Or negotiating world peace!
That's because at the end of the day everyone's knowledge is limited by their experiences, sure you have more experience than I do but you haven't EVER walked in my shoes, so I'll say it again I'll take your advice as just that ADVICE it's not gospel it's just the thoughts of a man and his experiences.
I'm bringing out the shouty caps lock next.
SeeYou190I cannot believe a Camry will cost you $500.00 per month in insurance. That statement can only be completely false. My youngest daughter pays $4,000.00 per year on a 2011 Mustang, and she has had two at-fault accidents and lives in L.A.
Jeepers - that is expensive! My little Volkwagen costs about $170 to insure - a year! And that includes unlimited liability, theft, vandalism and animal damage.
Something very British again. Rail transport means not only railways but also trams. Like in all major cities in the western world, tram system blossomed in the 1890 and onward. In Britain, the strated to disappear as early as the 1930s, being replace either by trolley buses or Diesel buses. The big purge happened in trhe early 1950s, when nearly systems closed down, only Blackpool and the Isle of Man keeping their tram systems. Since the 1980s, trams celebrate a resurrection in Britain and even London is investing into trams again.
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J.R. -
GMTRacingBigger news is our first grandchild arrived last night.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
None of my daughters have given me a grandchild yet. But... the first child of the next generation was born this week. On Monday my niece had a baby boy, so I am now a Great-Uncle. Not the same as being a grandfather, but I will take what I can get.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Morning All,
A regular to go please Zoe and hold the lecture. People in glass houses......
Not much done on the layout last night but tidy up. Not really enthused about the Noch static grass applicator I got. Either I'm not using it correctly or it just doesn't work as it should.
Bigger news is our first grandchild arrived last night. Samuel and mother are doing well after an arduous day (all day long at the hospital). More news as it arrives.
Time to pick up tools until we get the ok to go visit. Ciao, J.R.